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Today, Explained

Hint of crime

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Tostitos chips without real lime. Root beer made with fake vanilla. Instant mac and cheese that isn’t so instant. These products are among the hundreds targeted by lawyer Spencer Sheehan, who wants Big Food to stop misrepresenting its products. This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained   Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's today explained, I'm Noel King, in 2021 a record was set.

0:04.9

And when 2022 ends in a few weeks, that record will likely be broken yet again.

0:10.6

Last year, lawyers filed a record-breaking 325-class action lawsuits against food and beverage

0:16.2

companies for misleading consumers, according to Perkins Kui, a law firm that keeps track

0:21.6

of such things.

0:22.6

A woman has filed a lawsuit against Kellogg's.

0:26.0

New York resident Elizabeth Russick claims the strawberry pop-tarts do not contain

0:29.9

well enough strawberries.

0:32.4

An Illinois woman is suing after finding out the mozzarella stick sold with the TGI Friday's

0:38.3

branding does not actually contain mozzarella.

0:41.5

The man who filed many of these lawsuits has earned the nickname the vanilla vigilante.

0:46.8

Yeah, I would say I'm wired a little bit different.

0:49.9

Coming up, we ask this man Spencer Sheen, what motivates him on a quest that may seem absurd,

0:56.2

and we dig into what consumers you and me get out of it.

1:00.3

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1:05.3

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1:10.3

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1:14.2

And because you need a cloud solutions partner who can deliver outcomes every day, we're

1:17.9

fueled by our unwavering focus.

1:20.4

Customer first, cloud first.

1:22.6

At Rackspace Technology, we drive better business outcomes with multi-cloud, data, application,

1:27.6

and security solutions designed to deliver your future faster.

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